用托马斯·勃朗尼男爵的雄辩的话语来说：一个社会的语言对其成员来说就是一种关于整个世界的象形符号般的隐喻暗示的经验。

Or in Sir Thomas Browne's magnificent phrase, the speech of a community is for its members 'a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world'.

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奥斯男爵冲进房间后，开始吹嘘自己情场得意，并将与富商之女苏菲·梵尼罗成婚。

Bursting into the room, he brags about his amorous conquests and his upcoming marriage to Sophie von Faninal, the young daughter of a wealthy bourgeois.

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